Giorno: 14 Febbraio 2023

Can Valentine’s Day be more than love’s industrial complex?

Read More There’s an irony to celebrating Valentine’s Day. It’s a day that celebrates a single emotion — whether romantic, platonic, familial or self-love — but many have mixed feelings towards the fourteenth of February. Some opt for the heart-shaped clichés, others oppose the symbol of love as capitalism’s tokenism to sell more products. There […]

A BIG leap is Ramaphosa’s best step to economic growth

Read More A universal basic income grant is now firmly on the table — a development that couldn’t come sooner with the country’s unemployment and cost of living crises threatening to lay waste to the economy. Last week, President Cyril Ramaphosa remarked in his state of the nation address that “work is underway to develop […]

Technology firm Cisco is helping countries like South Africa plug the digital skills gap

Read More The Covid-19 pandemic turbocharged digitisation across industries, such as transport, healthcare, energy and education, and now technology company Cisco is now working on optimising the hybrid working system. At its Cisco Live conference in Amsterdam, Netherlands, recently the company said it was evolving from digitising manual processes to focusing on experience and automation, […]

BBC offices in India raided by tax officials amid Modi documentary fallout

Read More BBC offices in India have been raided by tax department officials, just weeks after the release of a documentary critical of the prime minister, Narendra Modi, which was later blocked by the government. According to those working at the broadcaster, more than a dozen officials from the country’s income tax department turned up […]

Deal on Northern Ireland protocol could be struck next week, sources say

Read More Negotiations over the Northern Ireland protocol are in the crucial final phase with a potential deal as early as next week, according to UK sources. Rishi Sunak is expected to spend the latter half of the parliamentary recess this week looking at the shape of the deal, with calls pencilled in with EU […]

Hunter Biden, an Obama ambassador and Chinese businessmen: A ‘very good relationship’

Hunter Biden boasted about having a “very good relationship” with President Obama’s ambassador to China prior to his business associates arranging multiple meetings with him, according to a review of emails from Hunter’s infamous abandoned laptop that have been verified by Fox News Digital. Less than two months after former Sen. Max Baucus, D-Montana, was […]

Elezioni regionali, al Pd non basta sopravvivere

Read More Nelle due più popolose Regioni d’Italia non hanno votato più di sei elettori su dieci. Qualunque riflessione sull’esito delle regionali in Lazio e Lombardia che non parta dal dato dell’affluenza sarebbe peggio che parziale: sarebbe sbagliata e colpevole. La disillusione dei cittadini non ha colore politico e dovrebbe interrogare vincitori e vinti in […]

Ford to cut nearly 4,000 jobs in Europe, including 1,300 in UK

Read More Ford is cutting nearly 4,000 jobs across Europe, including 1,300 in the UK, over the next three years amid plans to reinvent the brand and focus on a smaller range of electric vehicles. The US carmaker said it planned to eliminate 3,800 product development and administration jobs in Europe, citing rising costs and […]